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Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

room that has not altered = jot or title
since it was opened next door to the
Sign of the Crooked. .Stoop By 4 gentle
man in smalls, silks ockings and huge
silver shoe buckles little more than
eighty seven yearssago. The bill Of fare
lis distributed on some white eart'len-
ware plates on q table at the open street
door in the. shape Of raw steaks, outlets
and kidneys and uncooked vegetables.
The great lawyer looks the larder over,
sits down at q pine kitchen table on a
painted chair and waits while his meal
is cooked. 5sss sss 0
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Alexanara's Kindness ofHsart.

Of the Princess Of Wales Who il she
lives, will some day be Queen and En-
press of Britannia's domains, a charn-
ing story is just added<to the many
humane acts for which she is noted: A
little while ago she visited the Millbank
female prison, and was shown over the
place by the chaplain. In one of the
cells was woman who was so violent
that it had been found necessary to
handcuff her. Her Royal Highness
spoke kindly and tenderly to the woman
demonstrated with her as to her con-
duct and completely broke down her
sullenness. The refractory woman burst
into tears, and on the Princess asking
her to promise that if the handouts
were removed. she would not be violent,
she faltered out in a voice choked with
sobs,..sI will really be good, if they take
these things off. - 1t is needless to say
that at"these things we're taken off.
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14
Humbug.

Humbug.
Barnum said s'The American People like
to be hunbugged.'' This may be true in
tho line of entertainment, but not where
life is at stake. A man with consumption,
or any lingering disease, looking Death in
the face and seeking to evade his awful
grasp, does not like to he triled with. SO
with confidence we place before our readers
Natures great remedy, DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Biscovery,a sure relief for thatlong
train of diseases resulting from impure
blood, such as .Consumption, Chronic,
Nasal, Catarrh, Liver Complaint, Kidney
Disorder, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache,
Scrofula and General Debility. Time tried
and thoroughly tested, it stands without an
equal! Any druggist 1850,
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14
Gen. Howard Believes in Moxie.

A lot of it was ordered to his residence, a
few days ago, in San Francisco. It is now
being used by our prominent hard working
milllonaires and business men, who have a
great amount of business worry and care.
It takes aw.y nervousness that succeeds
nervous overstrain, where stimulan,s 6 were
used before and obtained only temporary
steadiness the Moxie does it better and as
q food, leaving no reaction or injury. more
than bsefsteak. The #Moxie has to he taken
like food and as often, stimuiants oftener.
We hope the Moxie will succeed. It is said
the old soakers are getting to take to it
quite ardently.
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"Not Bulk, but Business!"

Is the way Western man put it in express
ing toaa friend his complete satisfaction in
the use of DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative
Pellets SO small and yet so etfectual, they
bid fair to supplant entirely the old-style
pill, An ever-ready remedy for Sick and
Bilious Headache, Biliousness, Constipation
and all blood disorders. Mild in action,
wonderful in effect Put up in walls, con-
venient to carry. Th .ir use attended with
no discomfort! These sterling merits
account for their great popularity.
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14
She scolds and trets,
She's full of pots
Shes rarely kind and tender;.
The<thorn Of life IL u =
Z l. fA.-4.A - { -. Z {
Is q asff0ttu wife

fIwonder vhatswili mend her9 T.:
Try DR.. Plerce's Favor1te Prescription
Ten to one, your wife. is cross and trettul
because she is sick and suffering, and can
not control ner NERVOUSNESS W en- things 60
wrong. Make u healthy woman Of her and
the chances are you will make a cheerful
md pleasant one. Is 'Favorite frescr r1ptionp
is the. only remedy for won ants peculiar all
. 'nents, sold by druggists, undera q positive
7uarantee from the manufacturers, that it
" Il & We satisfaction in every case, or
9noney will be refunded. See guarantee on
'otte wrapper. Large bottles, 81. Six for
-.
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Mr.. Charles Schreiner, Foreman Of q large
Meat House in Baltimore, Md. says:-..He
had sprained wrist for severalweeks and
began to think it was never going to get
well he was advised to try Salvation oil.
did so and it worked like magic and a few
applications entirely cured him. S
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

d Our fashionable ladies were talking a
great denl last season about 'sThe Eleph mt
Grey" Thatit was the 'sprettiest color,"5
'the handsomest tint,'' s'the very best
the best cure is one bottle OF DR.. Bulbs
Cough Syrup-and the ladies know. -
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r. W. TANs1LL & Co., CHICAGO:
Although Twas paying $50. 90 per 900 for
my leading SC brand, my sales are more
than twenty five times as large since put
in your ''Tansiil's Punch" SC cigar. l could
not have believed it.
~. Yours respectfully,
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

III tsytoss Il selty Jor t1s legitimate AeaziaEef
dissxss and tAs ,llixfef fais, ii oes al2i1
claims fede. txs1sssds n ladifs tan gzadIy t<stj.
Itha. stood years in relieving period
cal pain, promoting regularity Of seasons and banishing
weakness backache and consequent nervous distress.
Probably no other woman in the world receives 70
many "letters Of thanks Is Lydia E. Pinkham, Of
Lynn, Mass. h Mrs. B.. Of Enfield, N. H., says:
II will simply say that your Vegetable Compound is all
you recommend II to be- lt s1ls don1 ne Worlds e/
suod. Another lady writes from Ottawa as follows:
have just today bought the seventh bottle Of your vege
table Compound have used boxes Of Pills and sew
eral packages Of your Sanave WASH and think it but
tight tell you how much good derived from your med
cines. They are regular God-s<r8. All the pains
and aches have almo, disappeared my stomach is much
stronger too and feel myself improved every way"
r, = Price u. Sold NJ all Druggists. -,
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

People who are always in high spirits soon
wear out, says physician. It may be, but
people who are always low-spirited wear
other people out .sis*%'5< X 16tSss:ss..
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14
Restoring Weary Minds

The judges Of the court Of Arepagus in
Athens, when bothered with a cause they
couldn't unravel. disposed of it, by ordering
the parties to appear again. in a hundred
years. and then proceed to restore their
weary minds with dose of Aliens Iron
Tonic Bitters. All genuine bear the sig
nature Of j. P. Allen, st. Paul, MINI.
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

A bad spell of ,weather-the lamb-lke
compositor's efforts in dropping the letter
ssa' from the first syllable.
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

A new play has been written entitled
Glove in the Ninteenth Century" It is q
farce.
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

Fits: AL Fits stopped free by DR.. Kline's
Great Nerve R~storer. No Fits after first
days use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and
500 trial bottle free to Fit cases. Bend to
Or. Kline, 98l Arch st., Phila., Pa.
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

''Gobemouches'' is the name given to
scandal lovers in England.
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

Whatever purpose q pump may serve in a
dairy, it does not account for the milk in
the cOcoanut. e
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

Tom (writing to Ted): isAs for the perch,
they bit with their usual veracity."
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

"a A Michigan COW has sixty horns-all the
requisites for full orchestra. II
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

Piso,s Remedy for Catarrh ID agreeable
to use- It il not liquid or asnuf. Soc.
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

Seems as if theemost likely place for a
fisherman to get bite would be at the
mouth of the river. '''
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

A Popular variety Of ffoursin-hand-
aces. EEsa$ $%sIs .%S&2ss&&
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

In 'catboat regattas the starting line
appror lately called "the scratch
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

= - = s5F,& = i3IFEEE@1 =! = 81 Ia7@-
: Why is the bridegroom more expensive
than the bride2 The bride is always 81 We
away, while the bridegroom is often sold.
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

"Aes DsSv vas s'ek, vs es-s hsr oast.A
@<sh -As sas . Child, she srisl fer Casessia
Whsa she ben.ns Hiss, sAs cl.1g - CasssstA
~AaA - haS csilazsa, shs give tAsa Oasssuth
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

Many times women gall on their family Phy.ciana suffering
this Tay they alike KIT and their
womb a The Of the 9
like Dr. Pieroes Favorite ded to the
symptoms and nstutng comfort instead of proong
3 PHYSICIANS East 8osn
FAILED HsSng exhausted the skin Of three g Ply;
weak I could with difficulty the
using tho local etnont rcoommended in his Common Sense
Medical Adviser commenced TO improve at once In three
months perfectly cured and have had trouble since
wrote letter to family briefly
health had b restored offering the full
to any one writing me for them and enclosing stamped
In reply have desorbed and the treatment used
mang u have rsceyed M second Of thanks stating
$o required for the Medical Adviser and had applied the
local treatment go fully and plainly laid down there and
Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

JOHN E. SEGAR, of Mi1enbeck, Va, writes:
m l MY wife had been suffering for two three
/ 0AVV years with female weakness, and had paid
Thrown lWl % RsssssR:
. -. . all the medicine given to her by the physi-
the three they had been praccng
-- Mrs GEORGE HERGER Of WesfcM n r,
Tue GREATEST ss e ssn
EARTHLY DooA
Tho 'FAvorte
poor suffering women" ~ - -
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Tor Infants and. Children.

'Castorasi is 50 we'll adapted 70 children that
lreconmend it - superior to any prescription
k1own TO me-" h A. AHcH1R, n D.,
r.. III 90. Oxford St, Brook1v1, N. 7. 8
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Mower County transcript., 1887-09-14

0DlllRl ,. Mc,,gghine ,g Habit oursa I, 70
VI oO6u Dr.. J. Stephens, Lebsson, Ohie.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-23
Leaves for Bedding.

We often see the statement in print that
it pays well to gather forest leaves in
quantities for bedding. l have myself
practiced it some, and think them not very
profitable to gather. They may make good
manure as far as they 60, but they don't go
far. | doubt If two-horse wagon-load
well tread, with top side-boards on, would
more than make bushel of solid manure
when mixed with the excrement of animals.
Leaves are not so good bedding as sawdust
or straw in my opinion, though they may
do for want of something better. Cor.
Mirror and Farmer.
We print the above to record our de-
cided dissent from its conclusions. We
have used leaves for bedding for more
than twenty years, and with much
satisfaction, and this year we have
stored about six or seven tons. 1t is
true they are not the most satisfactory
things in the world for bedding for
keeping of cattle and horses clean, but
in the pig-pen they are first-class. But
for their absorbent and manurial values
they are to be the most highly priced
and we believe them to be more valu-
able, pound for pound, than straw. A
friend of ours once MANFRED piece of
land entirely with leaves, covering the
ground from four to six inches deep
with them, and plowed them in. On
that he raised heavy piece of corn,
followed by an equally good piece of
wheat, and heavy crops of grass were
cut for, we think he said, six years.
We think this writer underestimate
the amount of manure the leaves will
make, and aside from the actual fer
tilizing material in the leaves the me-
chanical effect of their rotting down in
the ground is excellent. 1t keeps the
land lighter, more porous and gradually
yields the decomposing matter to the
growing plant. For bedding, simply as
a medium to keep cows clean, sawdust
is the perfection, but the effect of its
too profuse application on some soils,
especially of soft wood dust, is some
times injurious. With our present
light and experience we shall continue
to {" gather the fallen leaves"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-23
Feeding Cattle.

" The feeding of cattle is the most impor-
tant part of agriculture said the wise and
learned Cicero. This is an axiom because
it is a self-evident truth, as plainly deduct
BILE by reason and logic as any geometrical
axiom; for as the soil is exhausted by the
continual growth of crops, and the crops be-
ing fed to cattle in part, the refuse from this
feeding is returned to the soil, which then
regains at least part of what it has lost.
regains what it has lost. Therefore the
feeding of cattle must evidently be the most
important part ofagriculture. And this truth
should be impressed most forcibly upon
farmers whose minds, occupied by the con-
slant pressure of their work, may be apt to
forget it, or at least neglect it-New York
Times.
And at no season of the year is good
feeding more important than when the
stock comes from the pasture to the
barn. Changing them from green sue
culent feed to the cured grass, the
change should be made as gradual as
possible by feeding occasionally some
green feed, pumpkins, apples, cut fod-
der moistened with hot water, to make
it nearer a green food, and put on the
meal and bran. Feed literally the first
of the winter and if you hare to pinch
do it in the spring, but don't keep stock
starving and freezing at the same time
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-23
Food Values.

Henry Stewart argues that one ton of
clover hay contains nine or ten per cent
of albuminoids, while ton of timothy
hay has only five and oue-half per
cent of these valuable nutrients. Now
clover hay is always cheaper than tim
othy, and usually fifty per cent cheaper.
But, further, if ton of straw contain
ing two or two and one-fourth per cent
of albuminoids is mixed with ton of
clover hay the mixture contains pre-
cisely as much nutritious substance as
two tons of timothy hay. Hence the
farmers should grow timothy for sale
and clover for keeping. Your cows
are frst-rate practical chemists to de-
termine the values of fodder. Notice
whether there is any difference in the
yield of milk or butter when you have
fed them couple of weeks on good
clover hay from that when timothy or
red-top was fed. The COW will show
which is best, and we believe she will
decide in favor of clover.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-23
A Voice from the Farm.

You say that my life is a round of toll?
The stalwart farmer said,
That | scarce can wrest from the oft-tilled soil
My pittance of daily bread?
Well, what you tell me in part is true,
am seldom an idle man;
But I value the blessing of rest as you,
who have much of 1t, never can.
And surely, have never worked in vain.
From the spring to the golden fall;
The harvest has ever brought waving grain,
Enough and to spare for all.
And when in the evening, free from care,
sit at my farmhouse door,
My wife and little ones waiting there.
Oh, what has the millionaire more?
My children may never have boarded wealth;
Their lives may at times be rough;
But If in their homes they've love and health
They will find these riches enough.
The only land they will ever own
Is the land that the strong right arm
And the patient, fearless heart alone
Can till to fertile farm
have nothing beyond my simple wants
And little for cloudy days;
But no grim spectre my threshold haunts,
Such as silver and gold might raise.
Around me are eyes that with sparkling mirth
Or with placid contentment shine
And no th-clogged lord upon all the earth
Has lot more blessed than mine. Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-23
Items for the Restless.

Experience chronicled by Sherman,
Mimi, correspondent of Farm, Stock
and Home is not encouraging to dissat-
isfied farmers who would move to
town-a drift which he has reason to
regard as deplorable:" "A man
spends the best part of his life on the
farm and is reasonably successful, but
after he gets his land paid for he sud-
denly gets out notices announcing an
auction, at which he sells himself poor,
and then he moves to some city or vii
lage and takes fresh Shutdown hill.
OF the score or more of our neighbors
who have sold out and moved within
the last few years we can call to mind
only one who bettered his circumstances
thereby, and he didn't put his hand to
the plow and turn back he just took
another pillow in another location"
The next excerpt, from the American
Culhvator, states truth which is COM
ing to be recognized as those who left
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-23

trance examinations, and have neither
the time nor means necessary to COM
plete the full four years agricultural
course. Many of them also cannot
spend the whole year in study, but have
some spare time during the winter
months. For the benefit of this class
it is proposed the coming winter to in
stitute short course in agriculture. In
modern scientific farming none of the
sciences play larger part than chem
istry, and knowledge of some of the
more generally applicable principles of
this science is fast becoming necessity
to the successful farmer. 1t is in this
line that it is proposed to put most of
the work this winter. The great OBJ
lection raised heretofore against labora-
tory work has been its costliness. To
obviate this and to make course open
and available to any and every farmers
son it has been decided, as an expert
ment for this winter, to require no en-
trance examination, charge no tuition
fees and no fees for chemicals or APP
paratus. Three lines of study will be
offered. First, study of the laws of
plant growth; the amount and kind of
food required by different plants Qhe
student to test this by actually growing
plants in the laboratory under various
conditions); the effect of fertilizers and
the proper methods for their use;
chemical methods for Analysing fer
tilizers; homemade fertilizers; ex-
haustion of land; rotation of crops, etc.
Second, a course of study in Battlefield
ing, treating, among other things, of
the different elements of folders and
the Office of each; methods of analysis
of folders; artificial digestion of fod
der: rules for the compromising of ra-
tons to produce the particular kind of
growth desired. Third, course of
study on milk and its products; analysis
of milk, of butter, of cheese; tests for
adulteration of milk, both laboratory
tests and such as could be used on the
farm or in the factory; detection of
oleomargarine; scientific principles
underlying butter-making, etc. The
first session will begin November 20,
1887, and close December %. The Sec
ond session will commence January 81 :,
1888, and continue until some time in
March The fullest range of choice
will be allowed each student. All three
courses can be pursued, or the whole
time devoted to any one or two of them.
Students can enter at any time during
the session, but it will be greatly to
their advantage to be present at the
opening. Students can obtain rooms
and board near the University for $3.50
to $500 per week. For further infor-
nation apply to w. w. Cooke, Profess
sor of Agriculture, Burlington, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-23
The Fashion as to Perfumes.

The indiscriminate use of perfumes
among members of the fair sex is
rapidly decreasing, and the woman who
EMPLOYS triple extracts with which to
sprinkle herself has become the eXcep-
ton rather than the rule. Like every
thing else, perfumes may be legitimate
or not, according TO circumstances.
Delicate odors, such as violet, hello
trope or orris root, are always permits
sible, Just as patchouly and musk are
always to be stunned. In any event,
perfume in the shape of sachet powder
is to be preferred to liquid extracts, if
we except one or two English prepare
tons. notably one called wood violet,
manufactured in Canterbury by a on"e
obscure chemist. This subtle, delight
full scent was first used by the Princess
of Wales and later by Mrs. Langtry,
until it finally became the rage. The
chemist, meanwhile, has made for
tune. A peculiar custom with fashion
able women is to pour one ortwo drops
of perfume into their ears. Nobody
nowadays thinks of putting perfume
on a handkerchief or rubbing it on
ones hands. Laces, underwear, rib
bons, note paper, gloves and all small
| articles OF uTeSS are maui lldSldhN Wy
large sachet bags, which are of size
corresponding to the bureau or dressing
table drawers. These bags are COM
posed of silk and lined with raw cotton,
upon which the powder is spread.
This, in addition to very moderate
use of a faint suggestive odor, such as
the wood violet, for instance, is all in
the way of perfume that is allowable
by a really refined woman. Partisan
dressmakers have way of sending
perfumed gowns to their customers.
A strange feature connected with this
fashion is the fact that the odor re-
mains forever. A lady of this city, hav-
ing purchased costume whose every
fold breathed the most delicious per-
fume, sent an order to Paris for
sample of the scent employed. The
dressmaker forwarded to her by ex-
press small bottle of ordinary looking
sachet powder. Accompanying it was
a bill to the amount of $40. The lady
paid the money, but since then has
generally inquired the price of things
before ordering ,-Clara LAMA, IN
| Homestead.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-23
COb-Meal Best for Hogs.

The relative merits of cob-meal (corn
and cobs ground together) and Indian
meal (the corn alone) are forcibly por-
trayed in an experiment at the Iowa
Agricultural College. Six lots of young
barrows of the same breed, averaging
about $50 pounds each, were divided
into two departments of the same
weight and flesh. During the spring
and summer they received little more
than grass, and after August were fed
grain to fatten them. Full feeds of
rye were given them excepting one
week in the last of August, when corn
on the cob was fed. The feeding of
meal was begun on September 14th,
and before account was taken of the
experiment each lot was fed one week,
to accustom it to the feed. At this
time they were quite even in degree of
fairness, but those fed corn-meal were
somewhat the heavier. The hogs were
weighed at the beginning of the expert
ment, at the end of one week and again
at the end Of two weeks, when they
were sold. In each case the weight
was taken about noon and before feed
ing. They were fed three times each
day. The meal was slightly moistened
and small pinch of salt given each
lot in the mornings food. They were
kept in Enclosures where no other food
was obtainable. The week before the
experiment began the weight of the
six hogs was 1,452 pounds. By care
fully weighing several bushels before
and after Smelling it was found that
there are 14.0S pounds of cob to each
bushel of corn, counting ZOOS pounds
to the bushel of corn and cob-meal and
| So pounds to a bushel of corn-meal.
There were fed 6.22 bushels of corn
and cob-meal and $50 bushels of clear
corn-meal. The cob-meal produced
1906 pounds of pork for each bushel
fed and the corn-meal II 81 pounds pei
bushel. To produce one pound of
pork 40 pounds of the clear meal
were required and 5.Sl pounds of the
cob-meal. At SO per hundred weight
(he price at which the hogs were sold)
the gain gave forty-siX cents per bushe'
for the cob-meal and forty-two and
one-half cents per bushel for the clear
corn-meal. The hogs fed clear corn
meal gained more rapidly but made
less money out of the corn consumed
We have for many years believed there
was waste made in not grinding ant
feeding cobs, and have said so on occa
sion, and have been well laughed al
by some, while others have confirmed
our opinion. But we grind and feet
our cobs all the time just the same.